Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by dale_glass on Friday February 09, 2024 @07:11AM
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But Rust is actually a successful language, and the idea of writing a web browser in it is actually a good one.
Security is a huge concern for something like a web browser, which is a thing that keeps on increasing more and more in complexity. So far it seems Java is dead in the desktop space, and .NET has a very minimal impact, so it seems a compiled language is the way to go.
And Rust's excellent support for multithreading is also a big boon since now multicore CPUs are a standard and keep on getting more and more cores.
Overall the idea of building a very safe and performant browser seems like a great one.
Security is a huge concern for something like a web browser, which is a thing that keeps on increasing more and more in complexity. So far it seems Java is dead in the desktop space, and .NET has a very minimal impact, so it seems a compiled language is the way to go.
And Rust's excellent support for multithreading is also a big boon since now multicore CPUs are a standard and keep on getting more and more cores.
Overall the idea of building a very safe and performant browser seems like a great one.